Nordic Echoes: Tradition in Contemporary Art

View the traveling exhibition of contemporary Nordic folk arts and cultural traditions from the American region, curated by the American-Scandinavian Foundation. This exhibition features stunning works by 24 artists from the Upper Midwest, including Tia Keobounpheng, Christine Novotny, John Frandy, Talon Cavender-Wilson, Mike Loeffler, and more. This exhibition is also supported in part by the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. Several works will be on view at Norway House’s Mondale Gallery.

Highlighting innovations to and variations on traditions, this exhibit presents artists’ works as living, malleable forms grounded in traditional skills rather than as static objects rooted in the imagined past.   

Through mixed media works–including wood, textile, clay, and metal–the exhibition challenges the dominant “heritage model” of ethnic folklore by emphasizing that “all tradition is change.”

Nordic Echoes: Tradition in Contemporary Art Digital Press Kit.

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In addition to Nordic Echoes: Tradition in Contemporary Art, the work of Swedish artist Emelie Röndahl will also be on view throughout the Turnblad Mansion. Handwoven: Between Chaos and Order includes more than 20 of Röndahl’s handwoven works, including two moving-image pieces and a newly commissioned self-portrait. Video documentation of her weaving process provides further insight into the evolution of her subjects, which range from internet imagery to world events to intimate depictions of family, pets, and her own body.

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